Men hunt, women gatherSexual division of labor. Men hunt but often bring home nothing, women feed by gathering plant foods.thus women take care of kids while men hunt: they educate and socialize the young. Women provide and socialize = greater importance.

Acheulean culture

Homo Erectustools of stone.

hand-axe/cleaver

biface

core tools

cut-marks

Hand-axe/cleaver

core toolssharp on one end, blunt on the otherAcheluean culture

Biface

Acheluean cultureworked on both sides

Core tools

made from rock you start with

cut-marks

achuelean culturein bones from tools.

Archaic H. sapiens

long and low skull

chronospecies

anagenesis

transitional

Chronospecies

divisions of evolving lineage.

Anagenesis

straight line evoltuion, no branches

Transitional

in between h. erectus and h. sapiens

Neandertals

found in german valleyclasically european phenomenonlate surviving: 130-80 thousand years agoarchaic humans: long/low skull, no forehead.avg. brain bigger than ours

La Chapelle

Boule

Mid-facial projection

barrel chest

short distal limb segments

burial/ritual

Mousterian culture

Marcellin Boule

laid ground work for how neandertals are percieved now.discovered a skeleton and described and interpreted it in a very non-scientific way. said Not related to modern humans.

La Chapelle

village where first neandertals were discovered

Mid-facial projection

Neandertals havealmost like a beak, a big broad nose.

Barrel Chest

Neandertals havebroad chest

Short distal limb segments

Characteristic of neandertalsStocky, powerfully builtelbow to wrist, knee to ankle

homo sapien evolved recently in africa, new species spread out, replaced all archaic hominids they encountered including neandertals.

Neandertals diff species than us: homo neandertalensis

Mutliregional evolution model

Modern human origins

milford Wolpoff

earlierst out of africa, recent everywhere.

modern humans are end product of long evo. continuum. living old world human populations are in part descended from their archaic predecessors including neandertals. subspecies diff. we are homo sapian sapians. they are homo sapien neandertalensis.